User talk:4.242.141.200

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[edit] Truffle

I wrote all of the content from the North American Truffling Society webpage. Apparently Wikipedia won't allow my to "plagiarise" myself, so I have to re-write everything? The GNU license directions are unhelpful, I'm supposed to copy the entire text of the agreement into Wikipedia before my content? Or put it on my webpage so wikipedia will use it? That's what the instructions seem to indicate. Better clarify that, I have no idea what I'm supposed to do to use my own text.

The current entry for "truffle" is a bunch of crap regarding chocolate and psychedlic mushrooms. I wrote a book on truffles. You don't want my input, well then just keep your crap. I have wasted too much time on this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.242.141.200 (talk • contribs)

There is nothing on http://www.natruffling.org/ that hints to the fact that the text there is in the public domain, or licensed under GFDL or Creative Commons. The fact that you may be the original author of that text doesn't help, as you would still regain copyright to the original text, which means we cannot use it on Wikipedia. And of course, you have given us no reason to believe that you, the unregistered user currently on IP address 4.242.141.*, are actually the author of the http://www.natruffling.org/ site, but as I said, it wouldn't matter even if you did. You may also want to familiarize yourself with Wikipedia:Disambiguation before talking about "crap". If you bothered to actually check what we have here, you'd find the article itself, Tuber (genus), which has far more useful information than the copyrighted blurb you keep pushing here.
By the tone of your comments it sounds like you're not interested in contributing to Wikipedia under our standard terms of licensing. If this is the case, I suggest you leave the editing of the Truffle article to those who are. Owen× ☎ 21:32, 23 December 2007 (UTC)